This Researcher Predicted 2020 Would Be Mayhem. Here's What He Says May Come Next
Not everyone took Peter Turchin seriously a decade ago when he said widespread civil unrest would sweep through the US in 2020.
Not everyone took Peter Turchin seriously a decade ago when he said widespread civil unrest would sweep through the US in 2020.
We're not sure if this is so much a talent as much as a display of black magic.
Since 1932, the tiny town of Rugby, North Dakota, has claimed to be the geographical center of North America. But as with most things, the truth depends on who's telling it.
With Adobe Sign you can stop chasing down signatures and get documents signed in minutes — not days.
If you thought this was going to be a heartwarming moment between animal and robot, you've come to the wrong video.
The auteur discusses the Black experience in Vietnam, cultural literacy and the art of losing.
Cushman & Wakefield experiments with distant desks, one-way aisles, restricted conference rooms and lots of signage.
An unassuming bench in the Abbey Gardens of Bury St Edmunds is, curiously, the world's first cyber-bench.
Prominent white writers don't want to directly admit that they disagree with a large number of their Black colleagues.
Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world — and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game.
It saw a window of opportunity and it's not afraid to seize it.
Inside an experiment in self-government.
Less than a month after airing the final episodes of "The Last Dance," ESPN is offering up another nostalgic look back at 1998, this time shifting its focus to the historic home-run race that year between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa with "Long Gone Summer."
Having trouble getting a full-body workout while you're isolated at home? The Chopper is the ultimate at-home workout tool, endorsed by professional basketball players and football players alike.
"Palm Springs," a romantic comedy starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, will be available for streaming on Hulu on July 10.
To ensure our AI-driven future is just and equitable, we should borrow from Ancient Athens.
In theory, it would seem that you could keep squeezing those blocks together indefinitely, or can you?
OnlyFans has grown explosively during the pandemic - — but men aren't simply watching. More and more, they're turning to the platform for recession revenue.
Why progressive activism rooted in faith is so often misconstrued.
It's kind of funny and cute, until you imagine an army of these knocking at your door.
"Pizza Girl" is the coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.
Park County hasn't been able to figure out who is behind the 2,100 acres. We can reveal it's Reed Hastings.
With Adobe Sign you can stop chasing down signatures and get documents signed in minutes — not days.
Now that's a prodigy right there.
Here's a good reason to put the lid down before you flush: a new computer modeling study shows how a flushing toilet can send a cloud of little particles containing fecal matter into the air — fecal matter that could carry coronavirus.
Phil Vischer explains the history of race in America and why Black Americans continue to face injustice today.
The wealth gap between Black and white households in the country is horribly disproportionate.
With coronavirus infections surging as economies reopen, officials will need to consider unorthodox alternatives. Pakistan offers some lessons.
At the beginning of the month, a Tesla Model 3 crashed into an overturned truck in Taiwan. Here are some educated guesses about what went wrong.
Our entire visual field is not made the same.
An investigation by Privacy International showed that some companies are advertising on Facebook using the data of people they have never interacted with.
Please do not do this, unless you want to lose a limb.
This 34-inch curved display from Alienware is such a joy to experience. It supports both a 120Hz refresh and Nvida G-Sync with a native resolution of 3,440-by-1,440.
She's been having a moment — and that's not a good thing. Using baby name data, we found other names that are equally as "Karen" as Karen.
András Arató reveals how a stock photo shoot changed his life forever.
It's time to double down on electric vehicles.
The "Hellboy" star and the politician have engaged in a Twitter feud over the past few days.
We all have more time to ourselves these days. This guy used to to make something special.
Rather than creating a peaceful and calm presence on America's roadways, the unprecedented emptiness led to riskier driving behavior.
"We don't know why he chose Tulsa, but we can't see any way that his visit will be good for the city."
Who's the fish out of water now?
The promise was made on American Independence Day, 1983. "We, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh, plan to do a one year performance. We will stay together for one year and never be alone... tied together at [the] waist with an 8-foot rope."
What follows is a story of a number of women who invented fortunes. They lied, faked pictures, forged documents, and posed as socialites, or royals. They enacted, without knowing one other, The Heiress Con: inventing a fortune in order to create one. And they became stinking rich, for a spell of time, borrowing on the back of marvelous lies.
This is really taking the acrobatics of the Olympics sports to the next level.
A cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone can help save the lives of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus. UK experts say the low-dose steroid treatment is major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus.
One look at the uncertainties and the assumptions changes the story tremendously.
They're the biggest names in the credit card business, but how do the two compare against each other?
Kaepernick always deserved a job in the league. Don't forget how its teams tried to pretend otherwise.
For decades, many rocket scientists have looked to a propulsion system powered by a nuclear reactor as the fastest practical means of getting to Mars and other places in the solar system more quickly.
Teach a bird to steal fish and you feed it for a lifetime.
A new study is the first to quantify the proportion of differences in sensitivity that can be explained by genetic factors.
A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.
We didn't know how good we had it.
Even if you've never been to the vast red-rock desert country around Moab, Utah, you've been there — its mesas and buttes, its towering arches, have been the backdrop for a thousand movies (and even more SUV commercials). But the fate of a large swath of it, though nominally belonging to the American people, may soon fall to a guy named Craig Larson.
More than half of the board members of the National Book Critics Circle have now resigned in a sequence of events one member described as "bizarre and bloody in an end-of-a-Tarantino-movie way."
A Reddit post riffing on a famous "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" line was taken quite literally by Fox News in their reporting on the Seattle autonomous zone.
"We cannot live in fear, because when we live in fear, we are being controlled," said Moore County Clerk Brenda McKanna. "Even if I get it a second time, I'm for our nation opening back up."
There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?
Josh Gad brings together the cast of the 1984 classic.
A lot has happened over the last ten years, right? At the very least, the average cost of tablets has really dropped. Right now, you can ever grab an Amazon Fire 7 for just 40 bucks.
The three officers appear to have ingested bleach, but suffered no serious injuries.
When Oswald Cooper designed his eponymous font in 1919, he had no idea how ubiquitous it would become.
Earlier this month, North Korea threatened to permanently shut the liaison office with South Korea.
In the tradition of hapless YA book-to-film conversions, the Disney+ flop offers 10 lessons on how to mess up a beloved tale.
While we appreciate the journey, the ending of the video is an important lesson in terms of respecting a person's privacy.
The Solar Orbiter project, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, has begun a critical new stage of the mission after the probe's first close encounter with the Sun.
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
It's raised over four million dollars on Kickstarter, and it's easy to see why. Who else is lookin' to get buff this year?
At long last, Ellie and Joel will return in Naughty Dog's most ambitious game to date. Pre-order now, and get a handful of useful in-game bonuses.
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